Typical

Am calling loads of books on permaculture and radical economics to the local library from all of the country, and when I renew the River Cottage Cookbook (from which I have been curing bacon) I am going to order loads more things: Timeless Simplicity, Affluenza, The Shock Doctrine, Peak Everything and some more fabby Joanna Blythman to follow on from my rant on INEBG about supermarkets and the totally fallacious ‘we need cheap food for poor people’ argument (which I might copy and paste over here, but you’re probably sick of me banging on about it). I’ve been so good and not bought them on Amazon. *preens*

You have a library and it gets books in for you! Our village library has very, very restricted hours at odd times of day and often has problems getting books on inter-library loan. I miss having a propery library.

Peak Oil, Climate Change and Campaigning Links

Rob Hopkins, Transition Handbook

“Environmentalists have often been guilty of presenting people with a mental image of the world’s least desirable holiday destination – some seedy bed and breakfast near Torquay, with nylon sheets, cold tea and soggy toast – and expecting them to get excited about the prospect of NOT going there. The logic and the psychology are all wrong.”

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

"Food is that rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure."

Carlo Petrini

"A gastronome who is not also an environmentalist is an idiot. An environmentalist who is not also a gastronome is, well, sad."

Sharon Astyk

"I am, of course, firmly opposed to consumerism and corporatism in all its forms, and I believe that we are deeply confused about material needs and wants. Now let me explain how books and yarn are totally different than the material things that other people want ;-)…."

Raj Patel, at Slow Food Nation

"Biofuels, which is the preposterous policy that we should grow food not to eat it but to set it on fire."